Israeli soldiers walks near the border with Syria near the site of a Sunday Israeli airstrike, in the Israeli controlled Golan Heights, Monday, April 27, 2015

GOLAN HEIGHTS — Israel is taking advantage of the chaos in Syria to expand its illegal settlements in the Golan Heights, just as new oil reserves were discovered in the contested region.

Israel took control of the Golan Heights region, 460 square miles near the border with Syria, after the Six Days War in 1967. Israel soon began building settlements in the occupied region, displacing previous occupants, including the native Druze ethnic group. The Heights were officially annexed by Israel in 1981, and the expansion of occupation continues despite international opposition and multiple U.N. resolutions opposed to the growing settlements.

Now, Israel hopes to quintuple the size of its settlements over the next five years by adding an additional 100,000 settlers to the region. The plan was proposed by Naftali Bennett, a senior Israeli minister and member of the right-wing Jewish Home party, and, according to a report from The New York Times last week, Bennett is just one of “many Israeli leaders and thinkers seizing on the chaos in Syria to solidify Israel’s hold on the Golan.”

The proposal comes after months of fortification of the region by Israeli forces, alongside intensive exploration of the region’s energy reserves. Heather Hartlaub, a co-editor at Muftah, an independent news site dedicated to spreading English-language news of the Middle East, noted:

“Just two years ago, Israeli military engineers overhauled the forty-five mile border fence with Syria and replaced it with a steel barricade that includes barbed wire, touch sensors, motion detectors, infrared cameras, and ground radar, putting it on par with the Wall Israel has constructed in the West Bank.”

Major fossil fuel companies with both American and Israeli investors have also been pouring big money into the region. Afek Oil and Gas Company, a division of New Jersey-based Genie Energy, whose investors include some of the world’s richest moguls like Dick Cheney, Rupert Murdoch, and Jacob Rothschild, has a three-year contract to explore the Golan Heights for oil.

Israeli soldiers stand on top of armored military vehicles during training exercises in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, near the border with Syria, Wednesday, June 17, 2015. Syrian rebels launched a wide-ranging offensive against Syrian government positions near the Golan Heights on Wednesday, after tit-for-tat shelling in and around Damascus left at least 33 people dead, activists said. Insurgents have been on the offensive in southern Syria for the past three months, capturing military bases, villages and a border crossing point with Jordan. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

“We’ve found an oil stratum 350 meters thick in the southern Golan Heights,” said Yuval Bartov, the chief geologist of, Genie’s Israeli unit, Afek Oil & Gas. “On average worldwide, strata are 20 to 30 meters thick, and this is 10 times as large as that, so we are talking about significant quantities.”

The United Nations and much of the global community still consider the land part of Syria, and Israel’s occupation of it to be illegal. The Times noted that Bennett and other, unnamed Israeli officials “say that international — or, at least, American — recognition of Israel’s 1981 annexation of the Golan would be an appropriate salve to Israeli security concerns in the wake of the nuclear deal with Iran.”

“‘These hopes are less and less and maybe became quite to zero,’ said Qasem Sabbagh, a restaurant owner in the Druse capital, Majdal Shams. A longtime activist, Mr. Sabbagh said he had been ‘less active in the past years, because there is no politics here, there is a war only.’”

3000 years of crime, treachery and barbarity make Judaism capable of any abuse they think they can get away with committing.

David James Vickery

You say “Judaism”, while the politically correct thing to say nowadays is “Zionism”.

Some claim that the two are very different.

Are they really?

Robert Munro

I have no interest in what is or is not PC. If one sets aside the Bible and all of the stories/claims by Judaism, you can see the behaviors of Zionism stretching back over 3000 years. Their first acquisition of Palestine (then Canaan) was through genocide and ethnic cleansing.

Before that, they were driven from Egypt for some very compelling reason – it certainly wasn’t for “a plague of locusts”. Since that time they have been expelled from more than 100 countries. In almost 80 of those cases, there is strong evidence of Jewish crimes similar to those being committed by the Zionists and Rothschild/Bilderberg Cartel today.

No, there are dissident Jews who are not part of the criminal majority. But, there is no difference.

David James Vickery

Robert Munro, I posted this article to my Facebook wall, along with your excellent comment. I hope you don’t mind. If you are on Facebook, I’d like to add you as a friend.

Robert Munro

Thank you for the compliment. I don’t mind at all, James. I’ve sent you a friend request, though my FB page isn’t much. We use a family & friends site for everything real. I’ve had a few death threats by Jewish trolls and don’t link anything to my family or I.
Anything that I post can be used in any way you like in this fight.

vamike999

you both are communist, you don’t like others are successful and work hard in the capitalist system. so what you do is complain about it and worry about others because they are smart go to school and work hard. Just be honest with your selves. U prob hate america too/

Robert Munro

Jews work hard? LOL. Your cult has existed by crime from the day it was spawned. Communist? You mean like the Rothschild’s Bolshevik “revolution”?………………

Leaders of the Bolshevik/Communist “Revolution” in Russia. These are the people who fomented this revolution and carried it out. After they had won, they embarked on a slaughter of 30 Million Russians, ALL Christians and a few Muslims. There were no Jewish victims of this genocidal act.

(other members of the Czar death squad: Goloshchekin, Syromolotov, Safarov, Voikov, Yurovsky……..all Jewish)

Nikolai Bukharin Jewish

Ilya Ehrenburg Jewish (Propaganda Minister)

Letters written by Baruch Levy, a close associate of the Rothschild family, and by Lev Trotsky/Bronstein…..

“The Jewish people as a whole will become its own Messiah. It will attain world domination by the dissolution of other races, by the abolition of frontiers, the annihilation of monarchy and by the establishment of a world republic in which the J6ws will everywhere exercise the privilege of citizenship.

In this New World Order, the children of Israel will furnish all the leaders without encountering opposition. The Governments of the different peoples forming the world republic will fall without difficulty into the hands of the Jews. It will then be possible for the Jewish rulers to abolish private property and everywhere to make use of the resources of the state.

Thus will the promise of the Talmud be fulfilled, in which it is said that when the Messianic time is come, the Jews will have all the property of the whole world in their hands.”
–Baruch Levy, Letter to Karl Marx (written – 1879), printed in La Revue de Paris, p. 574, June 1, 1928

“We should turn Russia into a desert populated with white Ni**ers. We will impose upon them such a tyranny that was never dreamt by the most hideous despots of the East. The peculiar trait of that tyranny is that it will be enacted from the left rather than the right and it will be red rather than white in color. Its color will be red literally because we would spill such torrents of blood that they will pale all human losses of the capitalist wars and make (the survivors) shudder.

THE LARGEST OVERSEAS BANKS WILL COOPERATE WITH US MOST CLOSELY (Rothschild Cartel, which financed the Bolsheviks). If we win the Revolution and squash Russia, on the funeral pyres of its remains we will strengthen thepower of Zionism and
become a power the whole world would drop in the face of on its knees. We will show (to the world) what real power means. By way of terror and blood baths we will bring the Russian intelligentsia into a state of total stupor, to idiocy, to the animal state of being…. And so far our young men dressed in leather – the sons of watch repair men from Odessa and Orsha, Gomel and Vinnitza – oh, how beautifully, how brilliantly do they master hatred of everything Russian!

With what a great delight do they physically destroy the Russian intelligentsia ~ officers, engineers, teachers, priests, generals, agronomists, academicians, writers!” ~ Leib Bronstein (also known as Lev TROTSKY)

Few in the world today are aware that the original leadership of the Bolshevik/Communist “Revolution” was almost entirely Jewish and VERY FEW WERE
RUSSIAN. They slaughtered more than 30 million Russians, almost all Christian, and mostly well educated.

Moss Quito

You are a total doughnut..all this stuff you proclaim to be truth..and it’s all bullshut.
You moan and moan and moan..grow up, take a road trip into some traffic.

Just probes how pathetic you are. You got caught out in your lying. You made yourself look like an idiot..and you did it well.
I don’t usually talk to liars..but you lie so badly..it kinda made it fun.

I thought you didn’t have a problem with the Arab Jews, Robbie… I thought you were just mad at the European ones. What happened??

Jenjen

Sub human?
There are people in power, and then there is the common man. And there are differences between the two in every race, religion, nationality, Etc…

Tracy

If he is wrong, why don’t you dispute him. How does this reply add to the conversation? Your reply makes his response even more creditable. I am just beginning to look back at history. One must dig through the false history taught by schools to even begin to understand the world today. Schools leave us with this crazy illusion of knowledge. Once the pieces fall into place it’s not so hard to understand. I hate no one, but this past is quite damming.

…and you tried to shop the warmed over BS that you don’t entertain anti-Semitic ideas and instead align yourself with people like Max Blumenthal and David Sheen. What a crock! Your true colors are right here on display, Canuckle Dragger. Mainstream supporters of BDS do not subscribe to such bigoted views.

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